One of the more unlikely pairings in Rival Angels, Amanda Breaker and Brooke! Pretty dangerous if they can put it all together. Clearly, Monica is uneasy.

C2E2
The comic con is finally here and by the time you read this, I’m probably on my way there! If you’re going to be at C2E2, please be sure to visit me and Lora Innes (The Dreamer) over in the Webcomics Pavilion at exhibitor booth WC_O.

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Voting Incentive!
Sabrina made things right with Monica. Now look to see what Sabrina’s up to next in Monday’s preview!

Swerve! I like to think that Amanda Breaker turning on Monica was a surprise to everyone, especially Monica. Poor Monica!! Once again, she’s laid out at the hands of Brooke, though Amanda really did most of the work. Well, her and the ring bell. However, the bag over the head was all Brooke’s idea. And in the end, it seems like Brooke has herself a new friend. What do you think her roommates will make of this?

Next update: TV Tournament match between Victoria Buckingham and Hell’s Belles member, Katherine Smith!

Graphic Novel News!
The Rival Angels Graphic Novel is being prepped for the printer and I’ll be offering a pre-order offer. There will be incentives to pre-ordering but what you can count on is 129+ pages, full color for the pre-order price of $14+shipping. More to come soon.

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Half page: $65
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I had a fun weekend, ice on my leg and icy hot on my back with a few vicodin, but no splits, crutches or slings. There’s a stupid number of bike fatalities with head on car collisions, so I’m just happy to be in one piece. Thanks everyone for the well wishes, they’ve obviously helping.

This just isn’t going like Brooke thought it would. She got out of fighting Amanda Breaker but then starts off amazingly bad against the returning, vengeful, Mighty Monica Rumble.

Can Brooke get it back on track? She still needs a win but at this rate, its not coming anytime soon. And if she doesn’t win, she’ll be the only Upstart girl left without one. There’ll be no living with her under those circumstances.

The return of Monica Rumble! You may recall that she suffered greatly at the hands of the the Hell’s Belles back on page 125. With neck brace secured, Monica is up on her feet and angry at Sabrina and the Upstarts for not providing help when she was getting beat up. Monica doesn’t even like when the crowd reacts positively to them. Yeah, she’s got it in her head that they’re as responsible as the Hell’s Belles for what happened to her.

Now we have the interruption from…Aphrodite? She’s not shown up before, but believe me she’s been planned for a very long time.  Aphrodite is looking to make a big time impact by interrupting Monica’s time. Will Aphrodite come as friend or foe of Monica?

Spoilers abound after the jump, on Dark Knight and Dr. Horrible, but be sure to check out the new voting incentive to see Monica Rumble!

 

 

DARK KNIGHT
Let me just say that I thought it was an awesome movie, but at first I thought it was kind of choppy. It seemed like a six issue mini-series combined into one movie with bit about Scarecrow, China and then the conflict of being Batman.

And I also thought this was picking up like, 4 days after the first one, where it was like a year later and Scarecrow is a glorified drug dealer. The last bit with the bat sonar and that it was too much power seemed a tad forced, like hitting us over the head with the morality of the situation. Not bad, but it took me a minute to get into the groove.

Joker. Awesome part. Joker showed up and after the pencil trick, BOO-YA. Man, Ledger did such a great job that I kinda forgot it was him playing Joker. Then the end came and I thought, no more Ledger-Joker and I got a bit bummed. But Ledger was on! Joker was so bad ass from beginning to end. I swear I marked out every time he growled, ‘Why so serious?”

Aaron Eckhard did a phenomenal job and could’ve stole the show! But then, Oldman and Caine are superb actors too and could’ve stolen the show too. When Rachel got it, I was like WOW, anything CAN happen, but they didn’t have me fooled for a second that Gordon was dead. Odd how they went out of their way not to show his daughter. Bring on the Batgirl!

I also thought Batman was a bit too talky. Lots of great Bat moments, the ending was awesome!!! I’m hoping for another one though the writer has already said that HE won’t be writing it unless he can top the first two movies.

 

DR. HORRIBLE
Man, Whedon does it again, what a wonderful mini. Being a Whedon mark couldn’t take away some initial skepticism about a villain sing along blog but wow, was it awesome. AWESOME! I forgot that Nathan Fillion was in it too until he showed up as the hero and holy balls, was it funny. Anyone catch when Penny sings/asks at the end of Act 1, ‘I wonder what you’re Captain of? ” Just dying!! Super funny, super good. Naturally, I paid the $4 for the download from Quicktime because that’s a mad good deal.

I don’t know that we could have more Dr. Horrible considering how good the ending was but I wouldn’t say no. The actors were all top notch and the songs were solid. It even made me go watch Buffy’s ‘Once More Time With Feeling,’ which I really loved.

 

 

 

VOTING INCENTIVE
The first match we’ll see from the Television Tournament will be Kat Smith versus Monica Rumble. We’ve met Kat Smith, now vote and go meet Monica Rumble!